Twenty-seven year-old Andrei always knew his dodgy business dealings could get him into trouble. But aside from the odd scam or tax fiddle he'd never done anything seriously wrong; nothing that thousands of other businessmen weren't doing every day. And so he agreed to be the fall guy for his boss when things went wrong.

And they did go wrong - far more so than Andrei ever anticipated. Instead of the suspended sentence he was banking on, Andrei was forced to do serious time in one of the most notorious prisons in Russia. Surrounded by hardened criminals with a low opinion of Russia's nouveau-riche financial classes, cut off from his expensive lifestyle, betrayed by those he trusted, Andrei turned inwards and discovered a new life amid the debris of the old.

Do Time Get Time is a fast-paced, psychologically astute thriller of a novel. Tough, funny, cynical and quick-witted, it's a tale of survival and redemption set in one of Moscow's darkest places.